Opening files from hard drive fails
With Choosy 0.9.1 beta there seems to be a problem when you try to open files (I tried with an HTML page) on your hard drive. Opening links (e.g. from Mail) works as expected but a file does not. Here is the console output (when Choosy starts):
10/02/09 21:01:40 Choosy[514] Failed to get an int preference for runningMode (value was (null))
10/02/09 21:01:40 Choosy[514] Failed to get an int preference for generalMode (value was (null))
10/02/09 21:01:40 Choosy[514] Failed to get an int preference for displayMode (value was (null))
10/02/09 21:01:40 Choosy[514] Failed to get an int preference for iconSize (value was (null))
There is no output when you open the file.
I sent you a mail as well.
anonymous
shared this idea
Admingeorgebrock
(Admin, Choosy)
responded
There are several improvements to this in the 0.9.3 release:
1) Choosy properly registers itself with the OS as a viewer app for HTML files
2) There are separate settings for using Choosy as the default app for HTML files and the default app for HTTP URLs
3) The advanced behaviour rules system allows you to set up specific rules for local files (e.g. I have them set to open in TextMate by default but if I hold shift while opening the file I get a TextMate/Firefox/Validator prompt)
I’m hoping updates should solve the problems you’ve been having, let me know in the comments if there are any more issues. If not I’ll close this issue.
There was another issue that’s just been fixed: There was a problem opening local files that had special characters (e.g. spaces) in the file names.
